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author | jthorn <jthorn@e296648e-0e4f-0410-bd07-d597d9acff87> | 2002-05-10 19:46:22 +0000 |
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committer | jthorn <jthorn@e296648e-0e4f-0410-bd07-d597d9acff87> | 2002-05-10 19:46:22 +0000 |
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document Einstein - De Sitter spacetime
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diff --git a/doc/documentation.tex b/doc/documentation.tex index 7c350de..ed4fee0 100644 --- a/doc/documentation.tex +++ b/doc/documentation.tex @@ -90,8 +90,7 @@ parameter: Note that the parameter is {\em not\/} "Goedel"! }%%% \item[{\tt "DeSitter"}] - De~Sitter spacetime - (Robertson-Walker cosmology, near $t=0$, $p=0$) + Einstein-De~Sitter spacetime \item[{\tt "Kasner"}] Kasner like spacetime \item[{\tt "Milne"}] @@ -288,11 +287,11 @@ thesis, \verb|http://www.aei.mpg.de/~jthorn/phd/html/phd.html|.) \subsection{Kerr-Schild form of boosted rotating black hole} -\verb|Exact::exactmodel = "KerrSchild"| specifies Kerr spacetime -in Kerr-Schild coordinates, as described in MTW exercise~33.8, -but transformed to the usual Cactus $(t,x,y,z)$ Cartesian-topology -coordinates, and Lorentz boosted in the $z$ direction so the black hole -is centered at the position $z = vt$. The physics parameters are +\verb|Exact::exactmodel = "KerrSchild"| specifies Kerr spacetime in +Kerr-Schild coordinates, as described in MTW exercise~33.8, Lorentz +boosted in the $z$ direction so the black hole is centered at the +position $z = vt$, and transformed to the usual Cactus $(t,x,y,z)$ +Cartesian-topology coordinates. The physics parameters are \begin{align} a & = \text{\tt KerrSchild\_a} \\ m & = \text{\tt KerrSchild\_m} \\ @@ -333,8 +332,8 @@ is a null vector. \subsection{Kerr spacetime in cartesian coordinates} -\verb|Exact::exactmodel = "KerrSchild"| specifies Kerr spacetime -in XXX coordinates. +\verb|Exact::exactmodel = "Kerr"| specifies Kerr spacetime in +FIXME-WHAT-IS-TIME-SLICING coordinates. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @@ -358,7 +357,27 @@ in XXX coordinates. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% -\subsection{De~Sitter spacetime (Robertson-Walker cosmology, near $t=0$, $p=0$)} +\subsection{De~Sitter spacetime} + +\verb|Exact::exactmodel = "DeSitter"| specifies Einstein-De~Sitter +spacetime, as described in Hawking and Ellis section~5.3 and MTW +section~27.11, transformed to the usual Cactus $(t,x,y,z)$ +Cartesian-topology coordinates. The only physics parameter is +\begin{equation} +a = \verb|Desitt_a| +\end{equation} + +The Einstein-De~Sitter line element in $(t,r,\theta,\phi)$ coordinates +is given by +\begin{equation} +ds^2 = -dt^2 + a t^{4/3} \left[ dr^2 + r^2 d\Omega^2 \right] +\end{equation} +and is a special case (flat spatial geometry, no pressure) of the more +general Robertson-Walker metric. The only non-vanishing component of +the stress-energy tensor is +\begin{equation} +T_{tt} = \frac{1}{6 \pi t^2} +\end{equation} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% @@ -393,6 +412,9 @@ in XXX coordinates. \section{Acknowledgments} Many, many people have contributed code to this thorn. +Jonathan Thornburg wrote this documentation in May 2002 based on +the comments in the code, some reverse-engineering, and querying +various people about how the code works. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% |